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How unhappy a person is depends on how often they believe circumstances should be different, not on the circumstances themselves.

Drawn from what Sasha Chapin said

happinessCBT
What these subjects mean

happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

CBT Cognitive behavioural therapy: brief, structured, usually delivered from a manual, and the most heavily trialled form of talking treatment.

What makes a good life?under our view: How you meet what happens matters more than what happens

What Sasha Chapin actually said

  1. Sasha Chapin Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves
    Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.

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